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In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies
entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal
expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent
decades. These altered conditions have led to introspection and new
thinking on punishment even among those on the political right who
were previously champions of the punitive turn. This volume brings
together a group of international leading scholars with a shared
interest in using this opportunity to encourage new avenues of
reform in the penal sphere. Justice is a famously contested concept
and this book takes a deliberately capacious approach to the
question of how justice can be mobilised to inform new reform
agendas. Some of the contributors revisit an antique question in
penal theory and reconsider the question of what fair or just
punishment should look like today. Others seek to make gender
central to understanding of crime and punishment, or actively
reflect on the part that related concepts such as human rights,
legitimacy and trust can and should play in thinking about the
creation of more just crime control arrangements. Faced with the
expansive penal developments of recent decades, much research and
commentary about crime control has been gloom-laden and dystopian.
By contrast, this volume seeks to contribute to a more constructive
sensibility in the social analysis of penality: one that is
worldly, hopeful and actively engaged in thinking about how to
create more just penal arrangements. Justice and Penal Reform is a
key resource for academics and as a supplementary text for students
undertaking courses on punishment, penology, prisons, criminal
justice and public policy. This book approaches penal reform from
an international perspective and offers a fresh and diverse
approach within an established field.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies
entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal
expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent
decades. These altered conditions have led to introspection and new
thinking on punishment even among those on the political right who
were previously champions of the punitive turn. This volume brings
together a group of international leading scholars with a shared
interest in using this opportunity to encourage new avenues of
reform in the penal sphere. Justice is a famously contested concept
and this book takes a deliberately capacious approach to the
question of how justice can be mobilised to inform new reform
agendas. Some of the contributors revisit an antique question in
penal theory and reconsider the question of what fair or just
punishment should look like today. Others seek to make gender
central to understanding of crime and punishment, or actively
reflect on the part that related concepts such as human rights,
legitimacy and trust can and should play in thinking about the
creation of more just crime control arrangements. Faced with the
expansive penal developments of recent decades, much research and
commentary about crime control has been gloom-laden and dystopian.
By contrast, this volume seeks to contribute to a more constructive
sensibility in the social analysis of penality: one that is
worldly, hopeful and actively engaged in thinking about how to
create more just penal arrangements. Justice and Penal Reform is a
key resource for academics and as a supplementary text for students
undertaking courses on punishment, penology, prisons, criminal
justice and public policy. This book approaches penal reform from
an international perspective and offers a fresh and diverse
approach within an established field.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is committed to developing an
effective penal system which ensures there are fewer victims of
crime, has a diminished role for prison and creates a safer
community for all. In this collection of ten papers, the charity
has brought together some of the most prominent academic experts in
the field to map out what is happening in a specific area of
criminal justice policy, ranging from prison privatisation to
policing and the role of community sentences. The Howard League
guide has two main aims: first it seeks to paint a picture of the
current state of the penal system, using its structures, processes
and the specific groups affected by the system as the lens for
analysis. However, each author also seeks to identify the
challenges and gaps in understanding that should be considered to
predicate a move towards a reduced role for the penal system, and
prison in particular, while maintaining public confidence and safer
communities. In doing so, we hope to inspire researchers and
students alike to develop new research proposals that challenge the
status quo and seek to create the Howard League's vision for the
criminal justice system with less crime, safer communities, fewer
people in prison.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is committed to developing an
effective penal system which ensures there are fewer victims of
crime, has a diminished role for prison and creates a safer
community for all. In this collection of ten papers, the charity
has brought together some of the most prominent academic experts in
the field to map out what is happening in a specific area of
criminal justice policy, ranging from prison privatisation to
policing and the role of community sentences. The Howard League
guide has two main aims: first it seeks to paint a picture of the
current state of the penal system, using its structures, processes
and the specific groups affected by the system as the lens for
analysis. However, each author also seeks to identify the
challenges and gaps in understanding that should be considered to
predicate a move towards a reduced role for the penal system, and
prison in particular, while maintaining public confidence and safer
communities. In doing so, we hope to inspire researchers and
students alike to develop new research proposals that challenge the
status quo and seek to create the Howard League's vision for the
criminal justice system with less crime, safer communities, fewer
people in prison.
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